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...tagged as Scalia's faithful but less brilliant follower (a position Clarence Thomas currently enjoys). Now he has moved to the head of the court's "wimp bloc," complains Gary Bauer, domestic-policy adviser in the Reagan White House. The shift in Kennedy's position, he says, "reflects schizophrenia or cravenness...
...with Thorazine for schizophrenia, the first breakthrough for treating depression with drugs came accidentally. Doctors using a tuberculosis drug called iproniazid in 1952 discovered that the medicine had a remarkable effect on the mood of their patients: they literally began dancing in the halls...
...with the advent of new drug therapies, Freudian analysis has become almost irrelevant to the treatment of severe depression and schizophrenia. Granted, even the most pharmacology-minded of experts agree that the drugs work best in conjunction with some form of therapy. Yet psychiatrist Samuel Perry of Cornell University Medical College estimates that less than 1% of depression sufferers in the U.S. are being treated with traditional psychoanalysis -- that is, a long-term series of regular sessions with a psychiatrist. Though this technique is still considered suitable for treating neurotics who have trouble coping with everyday stress, not even...
...empirical study of clinical depression. His writings discuss only four patients who were known for certain to have suffered from major depression, and he published only one paper on the subject -- "Mourning and Melancholia" (1917) -- which contrasted ordinary grief and acute depression. He wrote somewhat more extensively about schizophrenia, which he called "paraphrenia." But he was always doubtful that psychoanalysis would be of much help in treating it. The schizophrenic's lack of interest in the external world, Freud wrote, made him inaccessible to transference. That is the key psychological process by which a patient redirects unconscious feelings retained from...
...Schizophrenia patients are being awakened from the long nightmare of madness by a remarkable drug. It is part of a new wave of medications that are enabling doctors to combat the most intractable mental illnesses and open a window on the mysterious world of human mood and emotion...